• Cactus_Head@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    Hoffmeister means “House Master.” You know, from the times when they used to own slaves.

    I would have legally change my name hell I was gonna do it anyways because I dont like my current name but fuck

    Also from the sound of it you don’t know him well which makes this worst

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      5 months ago

      You know what’s even worse? He’s wrong. It doesn’t mean house master it means court master. It’s what you call a chamberlain for a royal court or other nobility.

      It wasn’t a slave thing, it was usually considered a position of honour.

    • confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      As with many travelers in Australia, we both had work/holiday visa’s that allowed us to stay in Australia for 1-2 years. This wonderful comment was thrown at me within the first week of arriving at a hostel in Sydney.

      Fortunately they left a month or two later but I still avoided them when they did still live there.